Apurba Sarma (born January 1, 1943) is a National Award-winning film critic and a Sahitya Akademi winning author from Halem, Sonitpur district, Assam. He is one of the brothers of Arun Sarma who is also a Sahitya Academy Award winning author. He did his master's in economics at Gauhati University (1965).[1] And later worked as a staff reporter at The Assam Tribune (1965–1967), as lecturer in economics at Nowgong Girls College (1967–1997), as principal, Nowgong Girls College (1997–2002), and as editor of Ajir Asom, an Assamese daily published by The Sentinel (Guwahati).[1] He is presently the founder-president of Xahitya Mancha Asom,[2][3] a Guwahati-based society of writers and fans of Assamese literature.
Apurba Sarma | |
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| Occupation | Film Critic |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Notable awards | National Film Award for Best Book on Cinema, Sahitya Akademi Award for Creative Literature in Assamese (in 2000, for "Baghe Tapur Rati", a short story collection)...[citation needed] |
Awards and accolades
edit- Sahitya Akademi Award for Creative Literature in Assamese (2000)[4]
- National Film Award (Swarna Kamal) for Best Book on Cinema (2002)[5]
- Assam Valley Literary Award for Creative Literature (2015)[6][7][8][9][2][10]
Jury member
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editBooks
- Six anthologies of short fiction in Assamese
- Asomiya Chalachitrar Sa-Pohar (Light and Shade on Assamese Cinema)
- The Lone Ranger in a Forsaken Frontier (on the life of the pioneer filmmaker of Indian Cinema in the North East)
Features in journals
- Filming 'Literature' (Deep Focus, Vol. VI 1996)
- An Experience of Oppression in Assamese Cinema (Deep Focus, vol. VII No 3 &4, 1997–98)
See also
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edit- ^ a b Reporter, Staff (2010-09-15). "Apurba Sarma gets Assam Valley Literary Award". assamtribune.com. Retrieved 2024-10-01.
- ^ a b "The Sentinel". sentinelassam.com. Retrieved 2017-06-01.[permanent dead link]
- ^ "North East Briefs". Telegraph Online. 2017-03-06.
- ^ "ASSAMESE – Sahitya Akademi". Retrieved 2024-10-01.
- ^ "49th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 July 2020. Retrieved 3 September 2020.
- ^ "Apurba Sarma gets Literary Award - The Hindu". The Hindu. thehindu.com. 31 December 2015. Retrieved 2017-06-01.
- ^ "Lit award for Apurba Sarma - Times of India". The Times of India. timesofindia.indiatimes.com. January 2016. Retrieved 2017-06-01.
- ^ TI Trade. "The Assam Tribune Online". assamtribune.com. Retrieved 2017-06-01.
- ^ "अपूर्व-शर्मा-को-असम-वैली-अवॉर्ड |Award Apurba Sarma Guwahati Hindi शर्मा वैली अवॉर्ड Hindi Latest News". news.raftaar.in. Retrieved 2017-06-01.
- ^ "Apurba Sarma awarded Assam Valley Literary Award | Business Standard News". business-standard.com. 31 December 2015. Retrieved 2017-06-01.
- ^ "50th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 July 2020. Retrieved 2 September 2020.
- ^ "Directorate of Film Festivals Ministry of Information & Broadcasting - 54th National Film Awards - Press Release" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-02-10. Retrieved 2023-09-19.